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Condon '84 Selected to Attend Supreme Court Summer Institute

Kristine Condon

June 12, 2013

BLOOMINGTON, Ill.— Illinois Wesleyan University Kristine Condon, Class of 1984, has been selected as one of the 60 teachers to attend the Supreme Court Summer Institute.

The Supreme Court Summer Institute is open to teachers in the field of law-related and civic education, and is co-sponsored by the Supreme Court Historical Society and Street Law, Inc., a not-for profit organization based in Washington, D.C. The program provides practical, participatory education about law, democracy and human rights. Participants will learn from lawyers, reporters and scholars of the U.S. Supreme Court.

At the June 13-17 session, Condon will study U.S. Supreme Court cases in detail. Teaching methods related to the court are also in on the docket. Participants in the summer Institute will visit the Supreme Court and attend a reception there as well. Typically this is an event for K-12 faculty, however, two slots per session were made available to community college faculty this year.

From Homewood, Ill., Condon who graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in social studies, is a professor at Kankakee Community College (KCC). She is also the coordinator of the KCC Paralegal/Legal Assistant Studies program since its inception in 2002.

After graduating from IWU she earned a master’s degree from Loyola University, Chicago and is now a doctoral candidate in community college leadership at National Louis University in Chicago. Condon also holds two certificates from the Lawyer’s Assistant Program at Roosevelt University in Chicago and previously worked as a deputy clerk for the Illinois Supreme Court and has worked in the legal field for 15 years before becoming a full-time college professor.